By police accounts, it was the largest demonstration of its kind. Some 6,000 protestors gathered to remember the innocent victims of a bombing campaign that was so terrible it could be compared to the Holocaust….

In early February 2009, LabourStart announced the public launch of UnionBook (http://www.unionbook.org), the social network for trade unionists. Within days, the site came alive with blogs, discussion forums, shared files and groups. As I write…

Trade unionists talk a lot about organising, but how well organised are we ourselves? I’ve tried lots of tools over the years with the goal of being better organised, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), PC-based…